The third season of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire has found its Akasha. Ugandan-British actress Sheila Atim, who has starred in films such as The Woman King, Pinocchio and Mufasa: The Lion King as well as TV shows like Harlots and The Underground Railroad, will play the Queen of the Damned in the upcoming season, which is still in production. Akasha, nicknamed the Queen of the Damned due to her status as the first vampire, was previously played by R&B singer Aaliyah in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned, which was released six months after the 22-year-old’s tragic death in a plane crash. While the AMC show’s third season, subtitled The Vampire Lestat, focuses on Sam Reid’s Lestat de Lioncourt and draws from Rice’s novel of the same name, beloved characters like Jacob Anderson’s Lou

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